Mouse pointer size problem

Posted by Rasmus Pedersen on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Rasmus Pedersen
Published on 2011-11-04T23:54:34Z Indexed on 2011/11/20 10:23 UTC
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My mouse cursor is double the normal size. Its only the default pointer that is enlarged. Variations like resize, busy and so on are the correct size. The problem persists even when I change cursor theme.

If I move the cursor inside a Firefox window it changes to the correct size.

My resolution is 2560x1440, its a single screen setup. Nvidia-settings reports my DPI to be: 108x107. I've tired to force that DPI in the LightDM conf, since I figured it must have something to-do with the DPI calculation. I have tried to change the cursor size through dconf but the problem still remains.

I haven't seen this problem before, it arrived after the upgrade from Beta 2 to release version of Ubuntu 11.10.

Anybody got any idea what the problem might be, its pretty annoying with the huge cursor.

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